Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes

I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma.

Luis Alberto Urrea

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• Well, I'm a Harley Babe.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Well
  • Babe
  • Harley

• The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.

  

  Edie Falco
  • High
  • Want
  • Interesting

• The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • Never
  • Ending

• I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Bad
  • Baseball
  • Now

• The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Say
  • Give
  • Physician

• Twitter should ban my mother.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Mother
  • Should
  • Twitter

• I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • School
  • High
  • Day

• If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Real
  • Want

• For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Me
  • Single

• Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Done
  • Fun
  • You

• When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • School
  • Book
  • Mother

• I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!

  

  Sai Baba
  • People
  • Hope
  • Want

• I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Want
  • Moral
  • Try

• Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Perfect
  • Consciousness

• I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Parents
  • Attention
  • Child

• I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Up
  • Grow
  • Grow Up

• Don't get me wrong – I've gone to a club. But I'd much rather be with my close friends at home or a concert, or on a trip. I'll go dancing with my grandma. She likes to cut a rug!

  

  Zac Efron
  • Home
  • Friends
  • Club

• We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class.

  

  Clara Zetkin

• Being born white in South Africa or anywhere in the empire and Commonwealth automatically conferred this special status. You had no problem finding a place to live, a job, trade union membership, access to social services. Being white, speaking English, you were accepted as English, entitled to all the rights of citizenship.

  

  Peter Abrahams
  • Live
  • Job
  • English

• It's not what my job is about. I'm not out to make a political statement. I want to stand for something, but more by example.

  

  Lauren Bush
  • Job
  • Political

• My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Job
  • Water

• I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma.

  

  Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Political
  • Karma